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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
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Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
An Honest Man.

Have you got a copy of Millions paradise
LOST" asked Gilhooly Of Hostetter McGinnls,
one of the Austin arstocrats.
"What in the world is that" replied Nc.
Ginnis.
ats book" replied GilhoOly.
"No. sir; have not got such book. When
ever find anything that is lost | return it to
the owner. When did Mr.. Milton lose his
book? What reward is lie offering for its re-
turpp"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
A Negro Melody.

Doan' hurry me; l ain ter blame;
l has to take my time;
Onless you tumbles to the game
An tips me with dine,
treated like it's mos a sin
Bekase is brack; dat's strange!
Still eff l cannot change nv skin
I'll skin you OBJ Your change.
-1e1as Siftings.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
A Great Principle Involved.

'what. Reginald, will you let trfle sepa-
rate us?'
'It's no trihe, Dorothy;a great principle is
involved"
GLOW can high hat be called princi-
ple?"
"If you persist in cutting of your neigh
boris view, isn't that moral act and grave
offense?"
'You forget that the man who sat behind
me was blind"
'"That makes no difference. viii you take
me or keep your hat? Choose"
"Well, I'll take you and keep the hat to hold
YOUR theater cloves"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

well established that consumption If attended
to in its first stages, can be cured. There is,
however, no true and rational way to
cure this disease. which is really scrofulous
liberation of the lungs, except through purify
ing the blood Keep the liver imperfect order
and pure blood will be the result. Dr. Pierces
Golden Medical Discovery" a purely vege-
table compound does all this and more; while it
purifies the blood 1t also builds up the system,
strengthening 1t against future attacks of dis
ease. Ask for DR.. Pierce's' Golden Medical
Discovery" Take no other. OF Druggists
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

have much difficulty in swallowing the huge,
old-fashoncd pill, but, anyone can take DR..
Piercc's pheasant Purgative Pellets" which
are composed ofhighly concentrated vegetable
extracts. For diseases of the liver and stOm-
ach, sick and bilious headache, etc, they have
no equal. Their operation is attended with no
discomfort whatever. They are sugar-coated
and put up in glass walls.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
Good Logic.

A couple came off the west bound
train this evening, and we "knowed"
just as soon as they landed that they
was just married and from the back
woods country, the way they squose
hands; they were both afraid the other
would run away.-AbiLenc (Te1as)
Times.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs. "Have never
changed my mind respecting them, except
think better of that which | began thinking
well of."-ReV. Henry Ward Beecher. Sold
only in boxes. Price IS cents.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
A Satisfactory Explanation.

VIII Carleton says no man ought to do ut.
crary work after o'clock -. m, his brain not
being in its best condition beyond that hour.
We have but little doubt that some Of Mr..
Cartoons poems of late years were written
long after midnight.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
We MAY Be Happy Yet.

If there is anything in the theory of eyou-
ton the mugwump may become useful after
all. If the monkey that wags his tail can be
made to work, why can't the mugwump that
wags his jaws be brought to the same condl
finnyu
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
For Dyspepsia, Isdirestiop. de.

For Dyspepsia, Indigestion, de-
preston of Spirits and General Debility, in
their various forms; also as a preventive againt
Fever and Ague, and other Intermittent Fevers,
Decentralization Elixir of
Ca1isaya," made by Caswell, Hazard l.
Co., New York, sold by all Druggists; is the
best tonic for patients recovering from Fever
or other sickness it has no equal
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
Books OF Influence.

Gladstones latest article Is on Books That
Influenced Me-" Gladstone is English, you
know. and can do no wrong; but If he were
an American politician, now, he would write
on "PocketboOks That Have Influenced Me-
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

NANCE, Calls, Scratches, Cracked Heel,
Thrush, and all diseases of the feet and irrita-
tons of the skin of horses and cattle quickly
and permanently cured by the use of Veteri
nary Carbolisalve. Soc and 81 at Druggists
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

Lord VIM. Cecil, second son of the marquis
of Salisbury, is about to be ordained to Gu
racy at the parish church of ST. Nicholas, Great
Yarmouth.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

paradise Lost" was a sign recently exhibit
ed in Chicago. We are enwrapped in mystery
when we wonder why they would attempt to
find IL i'm Chicago
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

''Henry," asked the fond wife Of her sick
husband, "would YOU not like to see some
body" and he family responded: "No, Pm
not see sick "--B0ston Commercial Bulletin.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

Mental or organic weakness, nervous debil-
ity and kindred delicate diseases, however in
duced, speedily and permanently cured. For
large illustrated book of particulars enclose 10
cents in stamps and address, Worlds Dispen-
sary Medical Association, 663 Main Street,
Buffalo, New York.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

When Baby was sick, we gave her Csstoris,
When she WAS Child, she cried for Castoria,
When che became Miss she chung to Castoria.
When sho had Children she gave them Csstoria,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
Make the Walking Good.

The new railroad bill will abolish passes,
and it would seem to behoove the legislature
to give considerable attention to the improve.
ment to State roads SO as to insure good
walking.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

"There is nothing new under the sun" says
Solomon, yet the manner in which some
women wear their hair is certainly modern
contention.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
A WOman's Way.

An agent with three or four rugs In strap
called at q house on National avenue and rung
the bell without arousing anybody when a
woman called to him from across the street:
"No use ringing there"
"Lady gomez"
''They are too poor to buy rugs"
He was about to pass on, when chamber
window was raised, and a woman stuck her
head out and said:
.I'll show 'em whether we are or not l
thidk carpenters wife is just as good as a
drayman's wife, and has just as much
money for fine things. Which is your best
rug2"
''This one, ma'am-for S."
'Hang 1t on the fence where everybody can
see it. Now take this $40 bill and call at all
the houses around here and ask for change.
You won't get it,, but I'll have the right
amount to hand you when you come back"
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

1000 81 WASHING MACHINES FREE.-To
introduce then. IT, you want one send at once
to Monarch Laundry Works, 50 Warren st. NY.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

$4,000 were spent in IS years by Prof. G. A.
Donaldson, of Louisville. KY. in trying to get
rid of his rheumatism, but he found no relief
until at last he used st. Jacobs OH, which
speedily cured him.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

One-hfth of the entire population of Eng
land and Wales are stated to be in Sunday
schools, there being 100000 teachers and
& 2nO 600 scholars
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

''There may be some virtue in all of them"
he said, ''but for actual worth and rapidity of
effect, know that nothing made can excel
Dr. Bulls Cough Syrup.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
IL Is a Fact

Strawberries have put in an appearance and
q syndicate composed OF twenty New York
millionaires is negotiating for one of them.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
vitality Of Great Men

Is not always lSnate or born with them, but
many instances are known where 1t has been
acquired by the persistent and judicious use
Of DIR. Harter's Iron Tonic.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

subject for debating society-Which Is
the greater evil, spring elections o. house
cleaningi-- Whitehall Times,
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

The few days Of summer, the first of the
month, suggested the street sprinkler ana
vanilla GOODNESS.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

That tired languid feeling and dull headache
is very disagreeabe. Take two of Carters
Little Liver Pills before retiring, and you will
find relief They never fail to do good
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

The man who takes to the glass is generally
taken to the lug.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

in postal card on which to send your address
to Halett & Co., Portland, Maine, will, by re-
turn mail, bring you free, particulars about
work that both sexes, of all ages, can do, and
live at home, wherever they are located, earn
ing thereby from s. to SIS per day, and up
wards. Some have earned over $50 in single
day. Capital not required, you are started free.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

81 see a star, Ewes first born, in whose train
Comes the damp twilight that bringeth pain.
For aches of head, neuralgia, cut and bruise,
Try Salvation Oil. these will you lose.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

Love is blind, and this explains how IL
manages to get along on a winters evening
Just az handy with a kerosene lamp and the
wick turned way down as though it was
sparkling under the rays of a 1900 candle
electric carbon
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

Relief is immediate and cure sure. Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. SO cents.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

The most severe cough can at once be remov-
ed by Red Star Cough Cure. 'Give 1t to your
children by all means" says Prof. Williams,
ex-State Chemist of Delaware, who found 1t
wonderfully eficacious. Price, only twenty
five cents bottle.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24

Made Specially for Women,
Yet good for all, CARRIERS IRON Pills.
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24
Dec inc OF Man.

The chestnut bell is going out of date, but
the chestnut remains in all its worm-eaten
glory
Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-03-24


Ike to be one; | wish was one; just as a
azy man wishes be had the produces Of in
iuslry But how many men are there here
to night that can can say, Il am resolved
what to do" Il am resolved what 10 do"
Are you then resolved at once to become
Christian. Can | he a Christian at Oncel In
ne sense, no; in another sense, YES. Nobody
ever learned trade at q blow, but he can be-
lin this day; no man ever became scholar by
i resolution, but he never can become one
without resolution it Is complex one and
1 constantly repeating one, anciary resolu
lions unfolding the main one. Are you re-
solved to be Christian to this eXtent-l will
| begin tonight: i am resolved as far as / have
| light and as far as | know my way. j am de-
! termined, God knows | am determined. to
quare my life hereafter on Christian principles.
| | am resolved 10 be Christian man, Now,
| this may include churches Inav be a Roman
| Catholic and resolve il or a Protestant and
| stay out OF that church, and stay out of any
other church. This resolution doesn't mean
will be Christian like to this scheme or
| that schme, according to this church or that
| church; 1t simply means In its simplest form,
its primary condition. will regulate my life,
| both inside aud out, according to the principles
laid down for me by the Lord Jesus Christi Is
not that very simple thing! But what does
1t carry with Il. 1t carries in the first place,
this: i will therefore begin by excluding
everything that know will hinder this reso.
ution; from consciously wicked way. i will
begin as part Of the fulflment of this reso-
luton, will stop That is the meaning OF
the repent ance John began and Christ took up.
Repent, for the kingdom Of heaven is at hand,
that is TO say, will get over every known
wrong that is inconsistent with this purpose
that have formed; am going to live as
Christian man, as a Chr stan woman; and II
there be that which know to be fundamental
ly wrong / shall carry out my resolution
by repeating or turning away from that. And
then, in the next place, a resolution to be
a Christian applies Immediately; it Il
not that will be a Christian next year, or by
and by, or long tlme-death, but it is going
on, beginning at once to live. as far as / know
how, righteous. DO you mean, then, to take
the steps that are necessary! Are you ready
to begin your attempt TO live a Christian life
by saying In sincerity God, show me the way
give me thy helpP Are YOU willingi Not u
say your prayers: there are a great many
prayers said; great many too few prayers
that are felt and not true. Is there sincerity
In youl would to God that you have spirit
ual rehlling and the sustaining power OF the
whole spirit, that you have the certainty that
he was working in me to will and TO do his
good pleasure. Are You ready TO begin your
Christian life then by opening the word Of
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-12
demonstrating a Shark.

When the famous phosphate beds were
discovered in South Carolina some years
ago, vast numbers of bones and teeth were
unearth, showing that in early times this
locality had been peopled by great con-
course of strange forms. Among the most
abundant curiosities, as the workmen
termed them, were quantities of enormous
teeth, Triangular in shape and serrated on
the cutting edge. When shown to a natur-
alist they were Immediately recognized as
shark teeth, and it became evident that at
one time the locality in the vicinity of
Charleston was the bed of an ocean, and
that gigantic sharks fourished there in
great numbers. Whenever the beds of the
Ashley and Cooper rivers are dredged to-
day numbers of these teeth are brought
up, and one in my collection is nearly if
not quite as large as my hand. As the
bones of the shark are of cartilage, they
have long since been destroyed, and only
these beautifully polished teeth-for they
are as fresh and glistening as when first
discovered-are left to tell the story.
1t would appear to be an impossi
BILE task to restore this giant from
single tooth. But it is not so
difficult as one might imagine. For the
shape of the tooth of the great Carcharo-
don we can form some idea of its appear
ance by comparing it with existing sharks,
and from its size we can determine how
large it was. One day / attempted
rough restoration to gain some idea of the
dimensions of the giant. | had in my
possession the jaw of shark which had
caught in the Gulf of Mexico, which would
at the time pass readily over my shoulders.
The shark was about thirteen feet long,
and the teeth about an inch and two
eighths wide and an inch and half in
length. There were eight rows of these,
each row being little smaller than the
last, until they dwindled down to mere
points. l took as many of the fossil teeth
as | had, and built up jaw after the ex-
listing model, using teeth were had them
and leaving space where | did not Grad
ually the great mouth grew on the floor
until found myself small item in the
area, and when completed l found that
the largest fossil shark could have opened
its mouth and allowed me to drive in a
top-buggy, and that its length could not
have been less in proportion than one hun
dred and twenty-five feet-C F. Holder,
IN Norember Vide Aadke.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-12
The Ancient CrooodiIas.

While Europe has produced some re-
markable giants, America leads in this re-
spect, and in early days was peopled by
races so astonishing, that all the dragons and
fanciful monsters which the vivid magma
lions of the writers Of old have pictured.
fail to compare with the actual reality.
In fact, if it were desired to-day to pro-
duce a book of wonders and marvels. de-
scribing the dragons and other terrifying
creatures, it would be only necessary for
the historian to refer to the geological dis
coyeries of the last thirty years, and repre-
sent the animals just as they were. What
was the dragon of St. George to certain
huge platforms or the unicorn to the
loxolophodon with its many horns? The
roc of the arabian Nights was not more
wonderful than some of the fossil birds.
and even the great cuttles, the Poulpes of
the grave Bishop Poutoppidan, seem
almosts equaled by the giant squids of
to-day, some of which are fifty and sixty
feet in length. In short, the imagination
of man cannot picture wonders to compare
with the actual creatures which have lived
upon the globe.
In the geological hall of the Museum of
Natural History, Central Park, there is
upon one of the shelves an object about
FIVE feet and half in length, extremely
bulky, and weighing so many pounds that
two men find it all they desire t, carry.
1t is of brown hue, and might be taken
for the trunk of fossil tree or part of a
huge branch. At its side lies small
white bone, four or FIVE inches long, with
a label to the effect that it is the CORE
spending bone of living crocodile In
fact, the great brown mass, as bulky as
large man stretched at full length, is the
thigh or hip bone of an American giant,
which in former years roamed the great
cretaceous sea of the West. The largest
crocodile of to-day is about twenty feet in
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-12
The Panama Canal Company Bankrupt.


The funds reported as available on the
3oth OF June, 1887, amounted to l43, 233, 42S
francs. A new loan was offered on the
10Th of July, of 500, 000-franc-bonds OF
these bonds, offered at 440 francs, only
25S,SS7 We're taken. These added to the
company's resources 1870, $50 francs, and
swelled the Indebtedness to 1,60l ,S1i 900
francs. and the yearly interest to SIS, AS
$40 francs. The visible resources of the
company are, therefore, barely sufficient
for one years expenses, taking the story as
1t Is told by the Bulletin, with all its evil
dent suppressions and CLOSES and mystif-
cations. Allowing no more than their fair
value to these, it is plain that the COM
pany Is ruined. The concurrent testimony
OF disinterested scientific men, Europeans
and Americans, is, that the mass of the ex-
cavation to be made is even now greater
than the company's highest estimate for
the entire work. 1t has cost, therefore.
100000 francs to do nothing at all.
If all this money had been furnished by
Nj. de Lesseps and his friends, who could
know what they were doing, it would have
been mere waste to spend it on an enter
prise conceived in vanity and prosecuted
without seriousness and without intelli-
genee but we have all been told with
wearisome iteration that the Panama ca
nal was the work of poor proprietors, of
people, that is to say, who had no money
to lose. NJ. de Lesseps has used the magic
of his name to beguile these supplemented
folk, and to wheedle them into risking the
hard-earned savings which they kept
such was their knowledge of the world and
of finance-laid away in a corner. 1t is
they, and not he, who will suffer by the
failure of the canal, for his cheerful spirit
is not to be quelled by the misfortunes of
others, nor even by the reflection that his
place in the history of his time is already
marked out by the side of that minister
who, with light heart, led his country
into the most fatal of wars-Geo c. Hurl-
but in the Forum for Nocember
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-12

length, and its thigh bone four or FIVE in
ches. If the thigh bone of the Atlantic
saurus, of which this is part, be
six feet long-and Professor Marsh
has discovered one eight feet in length
how long must its possessor have been :?
This is an example in proportion, which
will admit of widely different answers
perhaps; but while my readers are guess
ing will say that biologists believe these
giants to have attained a length of from
eighty to one hundred and twenty feet.
While they have been ikened to croco-
diles they differ entirely from them in
appearance, having long legs, an attenu-
ated tail and neck and a small head giants
of wonderful structure living in the shallow
water of the great seas of the time, floating
perhaps, or anchored by their prodigious
feet and tail.
These colossal saurians were a common
feature Of the life in the Jurassic DAYS,
when vast sea covered Kansas and most
of the Western States.-C. F. Holder an
Nor. Vide Apake